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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;TIF, post: 1898853, member: 56859&quot;]A <a href="http://www.cointalk.com/threads/ancients-how-do-i-pronounce.239508/" class="internalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.cointalk.com/threads/ancients-how-do-i-pronounce.239508/">thread started by vlaha</a> last year raised many good questions and led to many of us wondering how to pronounce various ancient words.</p><p><br /></p><p>Ardatirion has graciously agreed to record Latin pronunciations of various emperor names and various other requested words.&nbsp; The audio files will probably have to reside on another site since such files appear not be supported by this forum&#039;s platform.</p><p><br /></p><p>I would love to hear both the proper and Americanized version of most of the Emperors as well as coin denominations.</p><p><br /></p><p>Some particular names/words of aural interest to me are:</p><p><br /></p><p>Poppaea</p><p>Clodius Macer</p><p>Otho</p><p>Vitellius</p><p>Domitian</p><p>Lucius Verus</p><p>Elagablaus</p><p>Diadumeniam</p><p>Vabalathus</p><p><br /></p><p>Some of these have pronunciations spelled out in that <a href="http://www.forumancientcoins.com/numiswiki/view.asp?key=Latin%20Pronunciation" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.forumancientcoins.com/numiswiki/view.asp?key=Latin%20Pronunciation" rel="nofollow">Forvm article</a> by Scott Rottinghaus but the examples seem to use a mix of phonetic and non-phonetic spelling (referencing the Latin pronunciation guide from earlier in the article) and odd syllabic divisions, rendering it hard to understand.&nbsp; I&#039;m also confused about the &quot;th&quot; sound-- the example given is &quot;pot-house&quot;.&nbsp; For the Latin pronunciation of Otho he spells out &quot;OTH-oh&quot; but says to use the Latin &quot;th&quot; sound.&nbsp; So does that mean the correct Latin pronunciation is &quot;AHT-hoe&quot;?</p><p><br /></p><p>Post your requests in this thread.&nbsp; <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie1" alt=":)" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" />[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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